Best Anarchism Sayings
81 Anarchism quotes by 40 unique authors
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Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
— Johann Most
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I know of no better name than Anarchism.
— Herbert Read
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There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,
— Rudolf Rocker
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The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had…
— Albert Meltzer
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Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous…
— H.G. Wells
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Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It…
— Emma Goldman
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Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces…
— Emma Goldman
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Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
— Emma Goldman
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis…
— Herbert Read
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I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
— Emma Goldman
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Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on…
— Noam Chomsky
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Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property;…
— Emma Goldman
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I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite…
— Emma Goldman
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our…
— Edward Abbey
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Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
— Paul Feyerabend
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An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave.
— Ammon Hennacy
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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand…
— Emma Goldman
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Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.
— Edward Abbey
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Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.
— Edward Abbey
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This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary…
— Benjamin Tucker
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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.
— Douglas Sirk
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